Russian police: 'Our hackers are the best'

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"Forget about Georgia or we'll slash your credit rating... "

On the heels of Russia's ham-handed rape of Georgia, their government seems to be trying an unsubtle "carrot and stick" technique to re-engage the US and other non-fascist governments - "play ball with us or we'll turn our world-class hackers loose on you."

It'll be interesting to see whether or not Russian hackers are capable of doing more than launching distributed denial of service attacks on former Soviet republics.

It'll be even more interesting to see whether or not Europe, the UK, the US and Japan have the guts to impose the traditional penalty on Russia and China that countries which purposefully fail to police their own hackers have suffered - disconnection from the Internet. Losing their E-commerce in a matter of seconds might motivate the Russians to stop playing Internet hacker games with us and our allies.

Posted by: jlafitte   Posted on: 09/15/08  (Edited: 09/15/2008 @ 06:13) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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